The residents of Delhi woke up to a thick blanket of smog this morning amid warnings by weather officials of falling air quality in the national capital two days before Diwali. The levels of the pollutant PM2.5 was at a "hazardous" 644 or over 20 times the safe limit prescribed by the WHO this morning at south Delhi's Okhla, according to data from the Delhi Pollution Control Board. PM2.5 are fine particles that can penetrate the lungs and cause respiratory diseases.

Baijal appreciated the role of South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC) and experts of Delhi IIT in formulating an action plan in transforming the site by developing an engineered LFS in place of saturated and non functional LFS, commissioning a construction and demolition recycling plant and developing an aesthetic landscaped garden to make it a landmark of south Delhi in near future. A senior SDMC official said the civic body is planning to convert it in a beautiful green site. Earlier, this year the SDMC announced that it will work with an expert from IIT Delhi to stabilise the Okhla landfill site has reached a staggering height of 165 feet. The massive dump in south Delhi was commissioned in 1996.

Alok Kumar, JCP, Crime Branch, confirmed the development on Sunday. Kumar said that Chikara was produced before the court and officials are interrogating him to find out further links. He said that Chikara has been taken to another state for conducting raids on other suspects. With Chikara;s arrest, the total number of persons held in the case has reached 11.The IE report, quoting a police official, said that Chikara was the main kingpin in the case. Initially, police had raided Chikara s house in Nehru Vihar of south Delhi, but he had managed to escape. The official added that Chikara along with another accused Sonu had helped candidates cheat in at least 10 examination centres across the capital. Sonu was arrested in March. The officer said that Chikara was directly in touch with coordinators of exam centres in Patparganj and Okhla. He added that the number of aspirants who qualified for the exam with the help of Chikara led gang is yet to be examined.

Despair has taken over the Rohingya camp at Kanchen Kunj, near Okhla, in New Delhi. Cries of children fill the air. All you can see for miles are black, ashened mounds. A fire, which broke out at the camp at 3 am on Sunday morning where there are around 226 persons residing, razed the entire encampment. Most people escaped with only their lives intact; all documents, clothes, food, utensils turned to ash.The residents are not sure how the fire began. We are yet to ascertain the cause of the fire. It began at 3 am. We called the fire station by 3.15 am and they arrived around 3.55 am. Fire tenders took almost four hours to douse the fire in the area where around 60 families live. In the camp all the homes were made of asbestos sheets and they are all completely gutted, said Ali Johar, a resident of the camp and an UN volunteer.

The accused, identified as Sandeep, strangled the boy after he resisted his sexual advances. The accused told the police that he threw the body in the drain two hours after murdering him. The body was recovered from a drain after a local informed the police. Chinmoy Biswal, Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) Southeast district said, ”On April 2, we received a missing complaint about a seven year old boy at the Okhla Industrial Area Phase 3 and his decomposed and mutilated body was found in a drain near Harkesh Nagar road under the jurisdiction of Okhla police station.

NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court has granted bail to Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLA Amanatullah Khan on Monday morning in the assault case of Delhi Chief Secretary Anshu Prakash. The court had already granted bail to other AAP MLA Prakash Jarwal in the case on March 9. "The petitioner (Khan) has served an incarceration of more than 20 days and no further custodial interrogation is required. So the petitioner is released on bail," said Justice Mukta Gupta while granting relief to the Okhla lawmaker.

Initially, the trains will be operated with a frequency of 5.14 minutes on this section. Modi was accompanied by Uttar Pradesh Governor Ram Naik, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, Union Minister for Housing and Urban Affairs Hardeep Singh Puri and Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) chief Mangu Singh during the metro ride. The prime minister boarded the train at Botanical Garden, which is the terminal station of the Magenta Line, at 1.05 pm and alighted at the Okhla Bird Sanctuary station. It was a four minute journey. Both the stations are in Noida. The other end of the line, for now, will be south Delhi;s Kalkaji Mandir. However, by April, the entire 38 km corridor, stretching till Janakpuri West, is scheduled to be functional. From the metro station, the prime minister proceeded to the sector 125 rally ground at the Amity University, where he was scheduled to address a public rally.With this launch, Botanical Garden became the first interchange station of the DMRC located outside Delhi 's boundaries as it was already one of the stations on the Dwarka Noida City Centre Blue Line. Through this station, the commuters will be able to travel from Noida to various parts of south Delhi and the domestic terminal of the Indira Gandhi International Airport, when the entire Magenta Line becomes operational by March, 2018. Until now, it used to take around 52 minutes to travel from Noida to south Delhi. The Magenta Line has brought it down to 19 minutes. Some features of the new line include platform screen doors, which are currently there only on the Airport Express Line and new generation trains, which can run on an unattended mode or without operators.

After this, Aam Aadmi Party;s Okhla MLA Amanatullah Khan had sparked another row by calling him an ;RSS BJP agent; and accused him of ;plotting a coup in AAP;, following which Vishwas had threatened to quit the party if no action was taken against the former. The party;s Political Affairs Committee (PAC) later suspended Khan. Later, Vishwas was also appointed as AAP;s Rajasthan in charge for the state Assembly polls scheduled to take place next year.He is currently busy in strengthening party 's base in Rajasthan and will hold a meeting with party observers for Rajasthan on June 19 and visit the desert state on June 25. However, he has faced some criticism even there. AAP spokesperson Dilip Pandey had questioned Vishwas for attacking the Rajasthan Congress but remaining silent on Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje of BJP. "We will take along the volunteers of the anti graft movement which gave birth to the party, and contest the Rajasthan polls, " a party leader close to Vishwas was quoted saying by PTI. Vishwas has been meeting volunteers as well as people from Rajasthan. He also met the farmer leader Rampal Jat on Friday to get acquainted with the issues related to agriculture.

After this, Aam Aadmi Party;s Okhla MLA Amanatullah Khan had sparked another row by calling him an ;RSS BJP agent; and accused him of ;plotting a coup in AAP;, following which Vishwas had threatened to quit the party if no action was taken against the former. The party;s Political Affairs Committee (PAC) later suspended Khan. Later, Vishwas was also appointed as AAP;s Rajasthan in charge for the state Assembly polls scheduled to take place next year.He is currently busy in strengthening party 's base in Rajasthan and will hold a meeting with party observers for Rajasthan on June 19 and visit the desert state on June 25. However, he has faced some criticism even there. AAP spokesperson Dilip Pandey had questioned Vishwas for attacking the Rajasthan Congress but remaining silent on Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje of BJP. "We will take along the volunteers of the anti graft movement which gave birth to the party, and contest the Rajasthan polls, " a party leader close to Vishwas was quoted saying by PTI. Vishwas has been meeting volunteers as well as people from Rajasthan. He also met the farmer leader Rampal Jat on Friday to get acquainted with the issues related to agriculture.

New Delhi: Lt Governor Najeeb Jung on Friday dissolved the Delhi Waqf Board, which was "superseded" by the Arvind Kejriwal government last year, after two of its members resigned alleging corruption and referred the matter to CBI for a probe, setting the stage for another round of confrontation between the AAP dispensation and the Centre.The LG reconstituted the board, quashing all appointments made by its incumbent Chairman and Okhla MLA Amanatullah Khan. Jung has directed Divisional Commissioner A Anbarasu to set up a committee to review the legality and propriety of all decisions and action taken by the Board after its constitution in March and submit a report within a month.

A committee is looking into the issue and will send its recommendations on what the revised wages should be, said Rai. The 13 member tripartite body comprises representatives from workers groups, employers organisations and the government, said the minister The committee, headed by the labour commissioner, was notified on April 12. The commissioner has convened five meetings and constituted two sub committees. These sub committees undertook a survey on the price of essential food items in crowded areas such as Mangolpuri, Naraina, Narela, Okhla, Jhilmil Colony, and Wazirpur, said the minister.

Residential land rates in Noida are set to go up.New Okhla Industrial Development Authority (NOIDA) Board at its meeting held on Thursday gave approval for a 14.19 percent hike in land allotment rates.

A case has been registered over Aam Aadmi Party 's Okhla MLA Amanatullah Khan for allegedly using derogatory words against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and inciting communal passion while speaking at a Delhi government event last month. Kotwali police station in north Delhi has filed the FIR for a non cognisable offence under section 504 (intentional insult and provocation for breaking public peace) of the Indian Penal Code. The event was organised by the Delhi government 's Urdu Academy at Red Fort on February 16. The accused has been caught on camera delivering a hate speech in a video which is going viral on social media in which AAP MLA Amanatullah Khan (is) using derogatory remarks against Modi government and inciting the crowd for gherao of Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh 's house, ” the FIR said.Khan also allegedly spoke in favour of releasing a cleric arrested by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on suspicion of having Islamic State links.The complaint was filed by Shakti Nagar resident Vivek Garg, who is a lawyer and RTI activist, with Delhi Police Commissioner Alok Kumar Verma on Wednesday. Garg had sought an FIR against the MLA for waging war against the government and outraging religious feelings. On the basis of the complaint, we have registered an FIR in respect of non cognisable offence under IPC section 504, ” said a police officer. The investigators are also examining video clips of the event.On Wednesday, the Delhi unit of Bharatiya Janata Party had also filed a complaint against Khan accusing him of using abusive language ” against Modi. A delegation of BJP leaders, including party 's Delhi chief Satish Upadhyay, had met the Police Commissioner and submitted a video clip claimed to have been obtained from the social media.

An FIR was registered against Aam Aadmi Party 's Okhla MLA Amanatullah Khan on Friday for allegedly making derogatory remarks against the NDA, two days after the BJP filed a police complaint.A delegation of BJP leaders, including the party 's Delhi chief Satish Upadhyay, met police commissioner Alok Kumar on Wednesday and submitted a copy of the video obtained from social media ”.